Brick

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A solid style, ground molded brick from an unknown architectural structure. The brick is rectangular in shape and is dark reddish brown in color with heavy wear and losses on the surfaces, corners, and edges. Each of the brick’s faces is covered in a layer of grayish white mortar with white shell fragment inclusions. One stretcher side of the brick has patches of mortar at both header ends and the other stretcher side has a patch of mortar near one header end. One header side is covered in a thin layer of mortar and has a hole at the center.

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